Speakers

Bob Beck

Bob Beck has been at the University of Alberta since his parents
escaped to canada from the United States in a balloon during the Nixon
presidency. Bob works for Computing and Network services at the
University of Alberta as well as for his own consulting company, Obtuse
Systems Corporation. He's been working with OpenBSD since 1996 in
a number of areas in the operating system. Bob has a Masters degree in
Computing Science from the University of Alberta.

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Richard Bejtlich is technical director for the Monitoring Operations
Division of ManTechs Computer Forensics and Intrusion Analysis group.
He is responsible for all aspects of CFIAs security monitoring service.
Richard was previously a principal consultant at Foundstone, performing
incident response, emergency network security monitoring, and security
research and training. Prior to joining Foundstone in 2002, he served
as senior engineer for managed network security operations at Ball
Aerospace & Technologies Corporation. From 1998 to 2001 then-Captain
Bejtlich defended global American information assets in the Air Force
Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT), performing and supervising
the real-time intrusion detection mission.

Formally trained as an intelligence officer, Richard holds degrees
from Harvard University and the United States Air Force Academy. He
wrote The Tao of Network Security Monitoring: Beyond Intrusion
Detection. Future works include Extrusion Detection: Security
Monitoring for Internal Intrusions, and Real Digital Forensics. He
contributed original material to Hacking Exposed, 4th Ed., Incident
Response, 2nd Ed., and several Sys Admin magazine articles. Richard
earned his CISSP certification in 2001 and CIFI credentials in 2004.
His home page is http://www.taosecurity.com/ and his popular Web log resides at
http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/.

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Henning Brauer is 26 years old and runs an ISP in Hamburg, Germany.
He is an OpenBSD committer since 2002 and works on all kinds of stuff
in OpenBSD, including the packet filter pf, the network stack, and
userland applications. Henning also started OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD.
When not hacking he likes to enjoy brewer's art or to go for a mountain
bike ride, of course only because mountainbiking helps to squash bugs.

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Reyk Floeter is a co-founder of .vantronix | secure systems, a company
specialized in Open Source security in Hannover, Germany. He is the
chairman of the EICAR Task Force on Wireless LAN Security and works as
an OpenBSD hacker on improving the free wireless support.

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Fernando Gont is an active member of the TCPM (TCP Maintenance
and minor extensions) working group of the IETF (Internet
Engineering Task Force). He is the author of a recent
internet-draft about ICMP attacks against TCP that proposes
counter-measures against them.
He is a member of UTN/FRHs Laboratorio de Informatica, where he
deploys OpenBSD-based internet services and researches on
network protocols. He is also an assistant professor at
UTN/FRH, where he teaches C-language programming.

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain is a principal in The Cain Gang Ltd., a Toronto based
development house and is on the NetBSD developer team. Projects have
included an ISP billing system, process control systems, embedded
controller development, an international gift card management system and
many other projects over the last twenty five years. He manages the
open source PyGreSQL project as well as making other contributions to
the open source community. In addition he has contributed to the book
"Software Solutions in C" edited by Dale Schumacher. In his spare time
D'Arcy plays bass guitar in a rock/blues band and is an avid
motorcyclist.

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Poul-Henning worked on FreeBSD before it was even called that. He tries to
survive as self-employed FreeBSD contractor and spends far too much time on
non-billable projects to ever become rich that way. He served six years on
the core team for undue enthusiasm, and is one of the people who have moved the
most junk in and out of the FreeBSD CVS tree. Amongst his creations are the
FreeBSD release building framework, md5 based password scrambling, phkmalloc(3),
DEVFS, GEOM, GBDE and a couple of thousand other CVS commits he can't quite
remember what did.

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Kris Kennaway has been a FreeBSD committer since 1999, is a former
FreeBSD Security Officer, and is currently a member of portmgr, the
Port Management Team. He currently spends most of his FreeBSD time
working on QA of FreeBSD and of the Ports Collection, and sending
annoying emails to port maintainers. In his other life he is a
theoretical physicist at the University of Toronto.

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Sam Leffler has been actively working with Unix systems since 1976 when he first encountered a PDP-11 at Case Western Reserve University, and he has been involved with what people now think of as open source long before it was even termed "open source". While working for the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California at Berkeley he helped with the 4.1BSD release and was responsible for the release of 4.2BSD. He has contributed to almost every aspect of BSD systems, most recently working (again) on the network subsystem.

After his time at Berkeley he spent time at Lucasfilm, Pixar, Silicon Graphics, and VMware before striking out on his own as an independent consultant. His most recent work is focused on wireless networking for use in the open source community.

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Greg Lehey is a FreeBSD and NetBSD developer and an ex-member of the
FreeBSD core team. He has been in the computer industry for 30 years,
most of them spent in Germany, in which time he has performed most
jobs, ranging from kernel development to product management, from
systems programming to systems administration, from processing
satellite data to programming petrol pumps, from the production of
CD-ROMs of ported free software to DSP instruction set design. He is
the author of ``Porting UNIX Software'' (O'Reilly and Associates,
1995) and ``The Complete FreeBSD'' (O'Reilly and Associates, 2003).

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Isaac Levy, (Ike) is an Open Source web-application developer based in
NYC. He runs Diversaform Inc. as a business platform to make his code
feed itself, (and ike). Diversaform specializes in Zope and BSD based
solutions. Ike works as an consultant/developer mostly with small and
medium sized business, but periodically works within large corporations
and organizations; currently Diversaform is working as a contracted
engineer for the State of Oregon Library Association (USA), engineering
web content management systems for rural library branches exploring
online possibilities using Zope/Plone systems.

Ike's personal passions lie in object-relational data systems, and UNIX
hacking, particularly any kinds of internet applications of these. His
'young adult' life in computing has been lived almost entirely in Open
Source, as well as on the internet, and ike aspires to give back to the
Open Source community that has raised him.
Isaac is a proud member and on the board of advisors of NYC*BUG
(the New York City *BSD Users Group) <http://www.nycbug.org/>, and a long time member of
LESMUUG, (the Lower East Side Mac Unix Users Group <http://lesmuug.org/>).

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Scott Long is 30 years old and live near Boulder, CO, with his wife and 2 children.
He has been hacking on FreeBSD since 1994 and has been a committer since
2000. He's also led the Release Engineering team since 2003. His main
interests in FreeBSD have ranged from RAID drivers, SCSI and filesystems
to threading and PCI infrastructure. He previously spent 4 1/2 years at
Adaptec in the Open Source Driver Group. Presently, he works for NAI Labs
doing Trusted Computing. When not in front of a computer, he enjoys
snowboarding, camping, and building Legos with his kids.

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Ryan McBride, CISSP - Information Security Consultant and OpenBSD
Hacker. Ryan has 10 years of experience wearing a suit in the
Information Systems industry. Over this period, he has worked with
public, private, and non-profit organisations ranging in size from small
office to "Fortune 50". His experience includes Security Policy
development, Software Development, VPN design and deployment, firewall
configuration, and IDS deployment and monitoring. When not wearing a
suit, Ryan amuses himself by working on OpenBSD's packet filter code.

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der Mouse has been involved in computers for nearly thirty years, a NetBSD
developer for over eight, and an advocate of open source for longer
than it has had the name, writing and giving away software for most
of those thirty years. der Mouse gravitates towards OS hackery (especially
virtualization) and networking, but is a bit of a jack of all
trades

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Mina <webmaster@topfx.com> is 25 years old and lives in Montreal. He's
been programming since he was 10 years old and is currently the senior
developer at an internet/hosting/TV company. Among his accomplishments
are co-founding IleSansFil and being Microsoft-free for over 3 years.

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Colin Percival is 23 years old and lives in Vancouver, Canada. He
received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Simon Fraser University at
age 19, and is currently awaiting his D.Phil. in Computer Science
from Oxford Univeristy.

In addition to being a FreeBSD committer and security team member
since January 2004, Colin is responsible for the FreeBSD Update
binary security update tool and the Portsnap secure ports updating
tool.

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Matteo Riondato was born in the foggy northern Italy, 19 years ago.
After having spent his youth playing with LEGOs and any sort of nerdish
games, he discovered computers and have never left them since he was 14.
UNIX lover since the very beginning of his computer interest, he is a
FreeBSD enthusiast and has focused his interest in system and network
security, following the dream of keeping the bad guys out of his
playground. He studies Information Engineering at the Padua University
and writes BSD-related articles for the main italian *NIX magazine.
Staff member of the Italian FreeBSD User Group (GUFI), he tries to help
the FreeSBIE project as a developer, bugmaster and documentation writer.

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Murray Stokely has served the FreeBSD Project as a core team member,
release engineer, and handbook editor. Professionally, he has worked
for Walnut Creek CDROM, BSDi, Wind River Systems, and now serves as
vice president of FreeBSD Mall, Inc. Interests include documentation
architecture, release engineering, and advocacy.

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A Computer Science student at the University of Milano-Bicocca,
Massimiliano Stucchi also runs a consulting company and ASP supporting
FreeBSD in mid- to big-sized enterprise environments. Based in Milan,
Italy, his activities range from normal system administration, to
operating system development, to cluster deployments. He is also active
member of the board of directors of the Italian FreeBSD Users Group, and
in his almost absent free time he enjoys playing chess.

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Chris Vance is a member of the operating system security research
group at SPARTA, Inc. Over the past ten years, he has been working to
improve the security of open source operating systems including Linux,
FreeBSD, and Apple's Darwin. A native of Baltimore, Maryland he
spends his spare time autocrossing and renovating his house.

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Jacques Vidrine has been a FreeBSD Project developer for 6 years, and
has served as the Project's Security Officer for over 3 years. It is in
this role that he created VuXML, the Vulnerability and eXposure Markup
Language. Currently Mr. Vidrine holds a broad role in product
development at Verio Inc., one of the world's largest web hosting
companies, where he participates in product design, architecture, and
implementation, focusing on networking technologies and security and
driven by a love of problem solving and software development.

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Robert Watson is a research scientist at Network Associates Laboratories, and
a member of the Host Intrusion Protection (HIP) Research Group. His research
interests include network and operating system security, and open source
operating systems. Past work includes research into DNS security, tamper-resistant
hardware, extensible operating system security including access control and audit,
distributed denial of service attack resistance, network stack performance and
hardening, integration of security measures into windowing systems, and operating
system hardening approaches. Mr Watson is also a member of the FreeBSD Core Team,
and founder of the TrustedBSD Project.

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Adam Weinberger, originally from the Bay Area, is studying Biochemistry
and Mathematics here in Ottawa. While most of his time goes towards
biomedical research and practising emergency medicine, in his spare time
he is an active committer in the FreeBSD ports tree, and provides the
Canadian English translations for the GNOME desktop and applications. He
likes poutine.